Cherry Capital Airport Traverse City

Michigan

Concrete-Contractor

Story

The stimulus bill that passed Congress in 2009 provided funding for many government structures, one of those structures that received funding was a new airport traffic control tower and administration building for the Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City, Michigan.  Kent Companies entered into the competitive bid process and was selected as the cast in place concrete subcontractor by The Christman Company, the awarded general contractor on the job.

            Kent Companies’ scope of work for the tower included the three hundred fifty cubic yard basemat with foundation walls, the slab on grade, and slab on metal decks and precast at the top of the tower.  The scope of work for the administrative building included the foundations, the slab on grade, and the concrete on the metal deck for the roof.  Along with the buildings, there were also numerous sitework concrete items that were poured.

            The pictures for this job tell only part of the story.  While this may look like just another construction site, what the pictures don’t tell are the high tolerances required for a tower structure that rises over one hundred and fifty feet in the air.  The basemat foundation walls had numerous sized vertical rebar in it, with the allowable tolerances being an 1/8” in either direction.  A template was provided, and was installed with double and triple checking of the reference points to assure it was properly placed.  Along with the challenges in meeting the tight tolerances, Mother Nature seemed bent on slowing the progress with regular lake effect snow events that required a full day just to dig out from.  It all paid off when the tower foundations were complete and the precast structure began to rise out of the ground. 

            Throughout the project, many different challenges arose either due to conditions in the field or in meeting the requirements of the FAA’s paperwork.  Both the field staff and the office staff at Kent Companies partnered together to work through whatever challenges arose to get the job done and to meet the customer’s expectations for quality and schedule, demonstrating the company slogan, “Make It Happen.”

           

Facts

  • Title: Cherry capital airport traverse city
  • Location: Michigan
  • Phase: Complete


Project Identification Number:

PP-CST-99BC-8E0E-CE3F-B4BA-0


Status: Completed


Tags

  • airport
  • commercial


Project Credits:

Kent Companies, Inc.

Concrete-Contractor

Architectural Glass & Metals, Inc.

Metal-Wall-&-Roof-Panels


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